Overview
- Police in San Martín de Porres report a grenade thrown into a Translicsa bus prompted a full suspension of routes, with UDEX carrying out a controlled detonation and an extortion probe under way.
- Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot at an Etecsa combi in Villa El Salvador and left a bag containing a threat and four bullet casings, after drivers reported prior extortion messages linked to a group called Seguridad del Sur.
- Security cameras captured two riders detonating an explosive outside a minimarket in Ancón, which authorities are investigating as a possible extortion attack after recent threats to the owners.
- Peruvian police and prosecutors are reviewing CCTV and forensic evidence from the Lima attacks, a court ordered seven months of preventive detention for a suspected extortionist in Pichanaqui, and the presidency plans to unveil a multisector security plan in early January.
- In Santa Fe, Argentina, a morning homicide was followed by a retaliatory midday shooting that left a pregnant 17-year-old and a 20-year-old dead and two others wounded, with prosecutors pursuing suspects in linked cases.